9781524732851-1524732850-Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

ISBN-13: 9781524732851
ISBN-10: 1524732850
Author: John Vaillant
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Knopf
Format: Hardcover 432 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781524732851
ISBN-10: 1524732850
Author: John Vaillant
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Knopf
Format: Hardcover 432 pages

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (ISBN-13: 9781524732851 and ISBN-10: 1524732850), written by authors John Vaillant, was published by Knopf in 2023. With an overall rating of 5.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $5.43.

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A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce

"Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page...Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters." --David Wallace-Wells, #1 bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth


In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's oil industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration--the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina--John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.

Fire has been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of millennia, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways.

With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America's oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters. John Vaillant's urgent work is a book for--and from--our new century of fire, which has only just begun.

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Jan 19, 2024

Reading this book is imperative for anyone who really wants to set appropriate priorities and understand the basis thereof. It is also very interesting.